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EP4090075B1
EP4090075B1 EP22181632.5A EP22181632A EP4090075B1 EP 4090075 B1 EP4090075 B1 EP 4090075B1 EP 22181632 A EP22181632 A EP 22181632A EP 4090075 B1 EP4090075 B1 EP 4090075B1
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  • Some embodiments relate to a method, a computer program, and a user device in a scenario where beam forming of transmission and/or receiving beams is used and in particular but not exclusively to handover scenarios.
  • a communication system can be seen as a facility that enables communication sessions between two or more entities such as user terminals, base stations/access points and/or other nodes by providing carriers between the various entities involved in the communications path.
  • a communication system can be provided for example by means of a communication network and one or more compatible communication devices.
  • the communication sessions may comprise, for example, communication of data for carrying communications such as voice, electronic mail (email), text message, multimedia and/or content data and so on.
  • Non-limiting examples of services provided comprise two-way or multi-way calls, data communication or multimedia services and access to a data network system, such as the Internet.
  • At least a part of a communication session between at least two stations occurs over a wireless link.
  • a user can access the communication system by means of an appropriate communication device or terminal.
  • a communication device of a user is often referred to as user equipment (UE) or user device.
  • UE user equipment
  • a communication device is provided with an appropriate signal receiving and transmitting apparatus for enabling communications, for example enabling access to a communication network or communications directly with other users.
  • the communication device may access a carrier provided by a station or access point, and transmit and/or receive communications on the carrier.
  • the communication system and associated devices typically operate in accordance with a given standard or specification which sets out what the various entities associated with the system are permitted to do and how that should be achieved. Communication protocols and/or parameters which shall be used for the connection are also typically defined.
  • UTRAN 3G radio
  • An example of attempts to solve the problems associated with the increased demands for capacity is an architecture that is known as the long-term evolution (LTE) of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) radio-access technology.
  • LTE long-term evolution
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • 5G radio access technology is so called 5G radio access technology.
  • LTE-A Long term evolution - advanced evolution have proposed using beamforming techniques.
  • US 2016/007261 A1 discloses a method including receiving at a user device handover information, said handover information comprising information relating to one or more first beams, said one or more first beams being target beams of a target cell.
  • WO 2015/147717 A1 discloses a method in a wireless device for performing random access to a network node.
  • the method comprises receiving a set of downlink beam-specific reference signals, BRS, from the network node, and determining a preferred BRS based on the received signal power for each BRS.
  • the method also comprises selecting, based on the preferred BRS, a random-access resource to be used for transmitting a random-access attempt to the network node, as well as using the selected random-access resource when transmitting a random-access attempt to the network node, whereby the selection of random-access resource indicates to the network node which downlink beam is preferred by the wireless device to be used for downlink transmissions.
  • a user device according to the independent user device claim.
  • a computer program comprising program code means adapted to perform the method(s) may also be provided.
  • the computer program may be stored and/or otherwise embodied by means of a carrier medium.
  • the computer program may be provided on a non transitory computer program carrying medium.
  • a communication device 10 or terminal such as shown in Figure 6 can be provided wireless access via base stations or similar wireless transmitter and/or receiver nodes providing access points of a radio access system.
  • An access point may provide at least one antenna beam directed in the direction of the communication device 10 at a given time.
  • a plurality of beams may be directed at a communication device from one or more access points.
  • the antenna beam can be provided by appropriate elements of antenna arrays of the access points.
  • access links between the access points (AP) and a user equipment (UE) can be provided by active antenna arrays.
  • Such arrays can dynamically form and steer narrow transmission/reception beams and thus serve UEs and track their positions. This is known as user equipment-specific beamforming.
  • the active antenna arrays can be used both at the access point and at the user device to further enhance the beamforming potential. More than one beam can be provided by each access point and/or antenna array.
  • Access points and hence communications there through are typically controlled by at least one appropriate controller apparatus so as to enable operation thereof and management of mobile communication devices in communication therewith.
  • Figure 5 shows an example of a control apparatus for a node, for example to be integrated with, coupled to and/or otherwise for controlling the access points.
  • the control apparatus 30 can be arranged to provide control on communications via antenna beams by the access points and on operations such as handovers between the access points.
  • the control apparatus comprises at least one memory 31, at least one data processing unit 32, 33 and an input/output interface 34. Via the interface the control apparatus can be coupled to relevant other components of the access point.
  • the control apparatus can be configured to execute an appropriate software code to provide the control functions.
  • control apparatus can be interconnected with other control entities.
  • the control apparatus and functions may be distributed between several control units.
  • each base station can comprise a control apparatus.
  • two or more base stations may share a control apparatus.
  • Access points and associated controllers may communicate with each other via fixed line connection and/or radio interface.
  • the logical connection between the base station nodes can be provided for example by an X2 or the like interface. This interface can be used for example for coordination of operation of the stations.
  • the communication device or user equipment (UE) 10 may comprise any suitable device capable of at least receiving wireless communication of data.
  • the device can be handheld data processing device equipped with radio receiver, data processing and user interface apparatus.
  • Non-limiting examples include a mobile station (MS) such as a mobile phone or what is known as a 'smart phone', a portable computer such as a laptop or a tablet computer provided with a wireless interface card or other wireless interface facility, personal data assistant (PDA) provided with wireless communication capabilities, or any combinations of these or the like.
  • MS mobile station
  • PDA personal data assistant
  • wearable wireless devices such as those integrated with watches or smart watches, eyewear, helmets, hats, clothing, ear pieces with wireless connectivity, jewellery and so on, universal serial bus (USB) sticks with wireless capabilities, modem data cards, machine type devices or any combinations of these or the like.
  • USB universal serial bus
  • Figure 6 shows a schematic, partially sectioned view of a possible communication device. More particularly, a handheld or otherwise mobile communication device (or user equipment UE) 10 is shown.
  • a mobile communication device is provided with wireless communication capabilities and appropriate electronic control apparatus for enabling operation thereof.
  • the communication device 10 is shown being provided with at least one data processing entity 26, for example a central processing unit and/or a core processor, at least one memory 28 and other possible components such as additional processors 25 and memories 29 for use in software and hardware aided execution of tasks it is designed to perform.
  • the data processing, storage and other relevant control apparatus can be provided on an appropriate circuit board 27 and/or in chipsets.
  • Data processing and memory functions provided by the control apparatus of the communication device are configured to cause control and signalling operations in accordance with certain embodiments as described later in this description.
  • a user may control the operation of the communication device by means of a suitable user interface such as touch sensitive display screen or pad 24 and/or a key pad, one of more actuator buttons 22, voice commands, combinations of these or the like.
  • a speaker and a microphone are also typically provided.
  • a mobile communication device may comprise appropriate connectors (either wired or wireless) to other devices and/or for connecting external accessories, for example hands-free equipment, thereto.
  • the communication device may communicate wirelessly via appropriate apparatus for receiving and transmitting signals.
  • Figure 6 shows schematically a radio block 23 connected to the control apparatus of the device.
  • the radio block can comprise a radio part and associated antenna arrangement.
  • the antenna arrangement may be arranged internally or externally to the communication device.
  • the antenna arrangement may comprise elements capable of beamforming operations.
  • Some embodiments relate to mobile communication networks with beamforming techniques. For example, 5G radio access technology and LTE-A (Long term evolution - advanced) evolution have proposed using beamforming techniques. It should be appreciated that other embodiments may be used with any other communication system which uses beamforming. For example some wireless area networks may use beamforming.
  • the 5G radio system may use frequencies form 400MHz to 100GHz. Beamforming is considered to be desirable in enabling the use of the higher frequency bands due to coverage issues. It should be appreciated, that other embodiments may use different frequency ranges.
  • Some transceivers may use analogue beamforming, which may mean a large amount of narrow beams as this is dependent on the number of antenna elements and carrier frequency. It should be appreciated that other embodiments may be used with digital beamforming transceiver architecture or so-called hybrid transceiver architecture which use a hybrid of digital baseband processing (such as MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output and /or digital precoding) and analogue beamforming. It should be appreciated that embodiments can be used with any method of beamforming.
  • transceiver architectures provide means for implementing beam forming.
  • systems deployed to lower frequencies ⁇ sub 6 GHz
  • the higher frequencies where the number of antenna elements required for cell coverage may range from tens to hundreds may be implemented by using hybrid-architecture, or even fully analogue architecture.
  • Relatively large antenna array gains, at both the access point, (e.g. 18 dB with 64 antenna elements) and the user device (e.g. 9dB with 8 antenna elements) may be achieved to compensate propagation loss and/or losses for example due to rain and oxygen absorption.
  • Different embodiments may of course operate at different carrier frequencies.
  • Some embodiments may use a carrier frequency of 28GHz and a system bandwidth of 100MHz. However, this is by way of example only and different carrier frequencies and/or bandwidths may be used in other embodiments.
  • Figure 1 shows the concept of beam sweeping.
  • Figure 1 shows N transmission and reception points TRP for a given cell - CELL1.
  • TRP1, TRP2, TRP3 and TRPN are shown.
  • N may be any suitable integer.
  • the TRPs are provided by an access point, which may for example be a base station. In order to cover a cell at higher frequencies, multiple beams are required. Each TRP point may cover a particular cell sector. A TRP may be allocated a particular frequency.
  • the N TRPs are provided by a single access point/ base station.
  • One AP may have one or more TRPs which may or may not be co-located.
  • Each TRP may cover a cell or part of a cell using one or more beams.
  • a sector or any coverage area may be covered by one or more TRPs.
  • periodical transmission of system information may be required per direction where one or more beams cover a specific area of a cell.
  • the corresponding directions may need to be covered to provide resources for system access.
  • an access point covers a specific area with a set of beams during a time interval (such as symbol duration, two symbols or N symbols durations where N is an integer) it is called a sweep block or synchronization signal block (SS-block).
  • SS-block synchronization signal block
  • the system may transmit synchronization signals and beam reference signals to one or multiple directions.
  • a sweeping sub-frame or so-called SS-burst may provide coverage for common control channel signalling with beamforming.
  • the SS-burst may consists of set of SS-blocks (or sweeping blocks).
  • SS block and SS-burst are used.
  • sweeping block and sweeping subframes are respective alternative terms for SS-block and SS burst.
  • the total number of beams required to cover the required cell area may be larger than the number of concurrent active beams that the access point is able to form. Therefore access points need to sweep through the cell coverage area in the time domain by activating a different set of beams on each sweep block.
  • two or more SS blocks may be required in single SS-burst.
  • the number of SS-blocks per sub-frame is limited by the length of each sweep.
  • one SS-block duration may be one or two symbols (for example, OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) symbols) and if there are 14 symbols per sub-frame, the sweeping sub-frame i.e. SS-Burst would be able to accommodate 7 or 14 SS-blocks.
  • a plurality of SS-bursts may be needed. However, this is by way of example only and different configurations may be used in different embodiments.
  • the number of active and inactive beams provided may also vary over time.
  • the number of active beams may vary between the access points and/or TRPs.
  • the active beams may be used for either transmitting or receiving information.
  • the SS-burst can therefore be defined as a downlink SS-burst, when the active beam is transmitting information, or as an uplink SS-burst, when the active beam is receiving information.
  • the same SSBs may be defined on uplink and downlink direction.
  • a SS block106 has a set of active beams, with different beams being active in different SS blocks.
  • a SS burst 104 comprises a set of SS blocks 106.
  • a SS burst may be one subframe or slot.
  • a SS-burst set 102 defines the number of SS-bursts and periodicity of an SS block. For example, both the SS-burst and SS-block periodicity may be same 5ms, 10ms or any other suitable period.
  • the SS-burst is transmitted every 5ms but SS-block is transmitted every 20ms giving system 4 different SS-bursts to transmit all necessary different SS-blocks in every 20ms.
  • the number of bursts and periodicity given are by way of example and any suitable number of bursts and periodicity may be used.
  • the periodicity of the SS-burst is defined depending on the required number of SS blocks needed to cover a cell with a needed SS-block transmission periodicity.
  • the SS-block periodicity is defined to provide frequent enough synchronization signal transmission for synchronization, beam detection and measurement purposes for the UE in given environment.
  • the needed SS-block periodicity is dependent on for example environment, expected mobility of the UE and target mobility performance.
  • the SS-block 106 defines which set of beams (e.g. SSB 0 or SSB 5) are active. During a SSB, only some of the beams are active, the rest of the beams are inactive.
  • TRP1 is associated with SS blocks SSB0 and SSB1.
  • TRP2 is associated with SS blocks SSB2, SSB3 and SSB4.
  • TRP3 is associated with SS blocks SSB5 and SSB6.
  • TRPN is associated with SS SSBN.
  • control signals such as synchronization signals (SSs), beam-specific reference signals (RSs), physical broadcast channel (PBCH), PBCH demodulation reference signals (PBCH-DMRS), Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RS), beam specific CSI-RS, Mobility Reference Signals (MRS) etc.
  • SSs synchronization signals
  • RSs beam-specific reference signals
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • PBCH-DMRS PBCH demodulation reference signals
  • CSI-RS Channel State Information Reference Signals
  • MRS Mobility Reference Signals
  • the synchronization signals SS may comprise one or more of Primary SS (PSS), Secondary SS (SSS) and additional synchronization signals such TSS/ESS (Tertiary Synchronization Signal, Extended Synchronization Signal). While the PSS and SSS may encode a cell identity (such as PCI, physical cell ID) the additional synchronization signals may encode the SS-block identifier. Alternatively the ESS may also encode extension of a cell ID in addition to PSS and SSS.
  • PSS Primary SS
  • SSS Secondary SS
  • TSS/ESS Tertiary Synchronization Signal, Extended Synchronization Signal
  • the PSS and SSS may encode a cell identity (such as PCI, physical cell ID)
  • the additional synchronization signals may encode the SS-block identifier.
  • the ESS may also encode extension of a cell ID in addition to PSS and SSS.
  • the SS block may include beam specific reference signals enabling the UE to distinguish and measure different beams in a specific SS block.
  • the different signals of an SS-block may transmitted in different manner: synchronization signals SS/PBCH or other signals may be transmitted using all the beams of an SS-block while beam specific signals are transmitted using individual beams.
  • the PBCH transmitted in the SS-block may carry one or more parameters such as system frame number (SFN), extended physical cell ID, transmission period of SS-block, transmission method and transmission schedule of the system information broadcast, and default configuration ID.
  • the extended physical cell ID may be used with the PSS and SSS to extend the physical cell ID to identify unambiguously the cell in the location of the UE.
  • the UE may use the transmission period of SS block, to determine the possible beams transmitted by the TRP to ensure that it has detected and measured all possible beams. From the default configuration ID the UE may select the correct default configuration that it uses for example in a random access procedure.
  • the SS-burst(s) may accommodate resources for the random access channel or other uplink channels requiring periodic availability such as SR (scheduling request).
  • Each beam within a SS-block may have a specific random access channel RACH preamble or set of preambles associated with it.
  • a RACH preamble or set of preambles may be beam specific.
  • Each preamble or set of preambles map to a specific BS downlink beam or set of beams. This is schematically shown in Figure 2 .
  • SSB0 comprises four separate beams, which in turn have one of an associated RACH resource slot 108.
  • a slot may comprise of one, two or more preambles.
  • SSB1 also has four beams and four associated RACH resource slots 108 and so on for the other SS-blocks within the SS-burst.
  • the RACH preamble space per SS block may be divided between downlink transmission beams.
  • a user device may indicate a preferred beam to connect to by transmitting on the RACH preamble associated with the preferred beam, and receiving a random access response RAR message with the same beam alignment.
  • the preferred or best DL transmit beam may also be assumed to be the best UL reception beam.
  • a RA (random access) procedure may be used to identify also the best UL beam.
  • a RACH preamble(s) may be common for each SS-block.
  • the user device may then randomly select a RACH preamble, and the network may determine the strongest beam for the RAR message based on the preamble reception, for example which beam of the current SS-block received the strongest preamble signal.
  • the BS may further communicate this to the UE in a response message or any other signalling message associated with the preamble transmission.
  • Each individual UE may have its own index that may be used to refer to a specific BS downlink beam.
  • a non-limiting definition for a beam is a detection of a beam specific reference signal such as BRS or CSI RS or the like.
  • a beam specific reference signal BRS is mapped to an antenna port which maps to at least one, typically a plurality of, antenna elements.
  • the signals leading to the antenna elements are individually weighted (depending on architecture this may be analogue or digital weighting), to form a specific radiation pattern.
  • Multiple antenna ports may be defined (thus multiple radiation patterns may be formed) which are identified by detection of different beam specific reference signals. These radiation patterns may be equally shaped but may point in different directions.
  • a single beam specific reference signal may be mapped to two or more antenna ports which may or may not map to the same antenna elements.
  • antenna elements can be mapped dynamically to different ports.
  • One example is to transmit a beam specific reference signal using two antenna ports where the antenna element specific weights are equal, but the first antenna port maps to elements that are horizontally polarized (H-polarization) and second antenna port maps to elements which are vertically polarized (V-polarization).
  • H-polarization horizontally polarized
  • V-polarization vertically polarized
  • the radiation patterns of the elements of the first and second ports are the same but as same beam specific reference signal is transmitted through both ports they are observed as a single beam.
  • a beam specific reference signal may be transmitted on two or more ports where the antenna element specific weighting is not equal (different radiation patterns).
  • Identifying different beams may be beneficial e.g. when user device indicates to the network access point the preferred communication beam during initial access or mapping a measurement to a common reference index when reporting the measurements to the network access point.
  • RSRP Reference Signal Received Power
  • RSRQ Reference Signal Received Quality
  • RSSI received signal strength indicator
  • CQI channel quality indicator
  • the transmission of these reference signal may be periodic or aperiodic (i.e. according to a schedule) in each cell.
  • the user device may then measure these signals to determine individual beam qualities within each cell. This allows the user device to determine different beams and refer to a specific beam by the relevant logical beam index.
  • the beam index is a logical index which is unique in a cell.
  • a UE may be able to differentiate beams belonging to different cells based on e.g. physical cell identity.
  • the cell (and beam) specific reference signals may be are derived using the cell identity as input or the signals are scrambled with a cell specific identifier or by some other means. These are merely examples.
  • the following mappings can be made: e.g. if eight different beam reference signals are transmitted per SSB, the receiver is potentially able to measure eight different signal indices (beams or beam indices).
  • the eight different BRS signals are corresponding to eight antenna ports.
  • the same beam specific reference signal antenna ports may be reused in the next SSB, thus the SSB ID may need to be determined to be able to determine the beam index.
  • a network may configure the UE just to measure and report beam specific signals (e.g. beam specific CSI-RS or the like) which may or may not be cell specific.
  • UE may measure the configured signals (e.g. different antenna ports) and feedback the result to network.
  • the SS block index may be explicitly signalled if the SS block convey also one or more of information such as MIB, SIB, DL CTRL (downlink control), DL DATA (downlink data) and/or the like.
  • the SS block may include a specific sequence number to identify the block.
  • the UE may thus determine different beams and refer to them by a beam index defined by a SS block index and/or a port index and/or by a reference signal port index and/or reference signal. This may depend on network configured reporting format.
  • the user device may for example determine beam state information (BSI) for each beam, which is used to derive a quality value for a cell.
  • the BSI may be determined by the addition of the beam index with either the reference signal reference power (RSRP) or the reference signal reference quality (RSRQ).
  • RSRP reference signal reference power
  • RSRQ reference signal reference quality
  • the cell quality values may be used to trigger measurement reports which may be used to determine the handover of a user device from one cell to another.
  • Figure 3 shows an example of handover signalling with beam reporting between a user device 50, a source cell 60 and a target cell 62.
  • step S1 the user device 50 is receiving reference signals for the source cell 60.
  • step S2 the user device is receiving reference signals for the source cell 60.
  • Steps S1 and S2 may take place in either order or more or less at the same time.
  • the UE derives a quality value (e.g. Q_cell1).
  • the UE may select a best reference, for example RSRP, measurement to represent the cell quality or it may use an average of N-strongest beam RSRPs.
  • Alternative methods such as using a power sum of N strongest or average of N-strongest beam RSRPs that are within a given offset with reference to a strongest beam may alternatively be used.
  • step S3 the user device determines the occurrence of a measurement report trigger event, for example that the quality of the target cell 62 (Q_cell2) is higher than the quality of source cell 60 (Q_cell1) for more than a given amount for a given length of time.
  • a measurement report trigger event for example that the quality of the target cell 62 (Q_cell2) is higher than the quality of source cell 60 (Q_cell1) for more than a given amount for a given length of time.
  • any other suitable trigger event may cause the measurement report.
  • step S4 the user device generates a radio resource control (RRC) measurement report, which is sent to the source cell, cell 1.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • This RRC report may include one or more of: information about cell quality values of the serving cells, information about cell quality values of the neighbouring cells; and the N-highest quality BSI for each reported cell or beams above a specific absolute threshold or relative threshold e.g. to a highest quality beam etc.
  • the BSI information associated with the serving (source) cell may be omitted as the source cell may already have that information via, for example, L1/L2 signalling.
  • the RRC report contents may be defined by the network configuration.
  • the cell quality and beam specific information may be reported in separate messages depending on network configuration.
  • step S5 the source cell 60 then determines whether to hand over the user device to the target cell 62 based on the information in the measurement report.
  • the source cell may determine whether to hand over to the target cell in dependence on the cell quality and optionally in dependence on individual beam quality.
  • step S6 the source cell informs the target cell of the handover request in a handover request message.
  • the reported beam information by the user device may be included in the handover request message.
  • the target cell 62 may allocate beam specific contention free RACH resources based on the information reported by the source cell, or alternatively may allocate SS-block specific RACH resources as described previously. This information is provided to the source cell, for example in a handover acknowledgement message.
  • the contention free resource may be an uplink signalling resource or a data resource.
  • An example of an UL signalling resource may be a SR (scheduling request) which may be assigned from the same resource pool or same SS-block as RACH resources on the uplink. In some cases these resources may be frequency or time (e.g. multiple symbols for corresponding uplink SS-block / sweep block) multiplexed with RACH resources. These resources for the SR may be SS-block specific or beam specific depending on the configuration. Alternatively the SR resources may also be scheduled on uplink control channels such as PUCCH. Another example of UL signalling resource may be an SRS (sounding reference signal).
  • a data resource may be a dedicated resource allocation on uplink for a UE. In one example a dedicated SR resource (or resource other than RACH preamble) could be used when the UE does not need to obtain time alignment with the target cell
  • step S8 the source cell 60 reports to the user device, the allocated resources. These resources may be indicated to user device via a RRC (radio resource reconfiguration) message with handover command. Alternatively MAC signalling may be used to initiate the handover to new target cell.
  • RRC radio resource reconfiguration
  • the user device access to the target cell, using the contention free RACH configuration provided by the target cell is not possible due to deterioration of the target cell beams or SS-blocks given in the configuration. Due to the high operating frequency and the use of shaped beams, it may be that beam qualities may change more rapidly than in current cellular systems which operate with single sector beams with a lower operating frequency (for example, below 6 GHz). With the relative high data rates and relatively low latency requirements of the 5G standard, any delays associated with re-establishing connection need to be avoided.
  • the handover process performed by the user device in some embodiments is referenced S9 in Figure 3 .
  • the UE has thus received a handover command with dedicated random access resources for particular beam(s)/SS-block(s) to the target cell.
  • the UE will then determine if that the beam qualities of the beams having the respective dedicated resources is below a configured first threshold_1 (may be an absolute or relative threshold) and considers alternative beams of the target cell with beam quality higher than second threshold_2 with contention based random access resources for handover completion.
  • the UE may evaluate that random access to the beams with dedicated random access resources is not possible, based on determining that the estimated uplink transmission power needed for RACH exceeds the maximum allowed transmission power of the UE or/and cell.
  • the UE may estimate the needed uplink power based on a latest path loss estimate.
  • the UE may estimate based on for e.g. BRS/CSI-RS and/or on target RSRP value indicated by the radio access network.
  • the user device may cancel random access to the beam(s) with UE dedicated resources and then initiate random access to the beam with contention based random access resources. Only if no beams are detected from the target cell will the UE initiates the handover failure procedure. This leads to connection re-establishment with cell selection.
  • the user device receive the handover command with dedicated random access resources for a certain beam or SS-block of the target cell.
  • the UE will perform beam management during HO when it has reported target cell beam measurements in a RRC measurement report and received a RACH configuration RRC reconfiguration message to establish a connection to Target cell
  • the user device evaluates the beam quality of the beam(s) or SS-block identified in the handover command.
  • a target beam(s) may be considered to be blocked when the beam quality (RSRP/RSRQ) is below a network configured value threshold_1 (TH_1) or cannot be detected.
  • This value may be a preconfigured value (e.g. RSRP threshold value) or may be explicitly signalled. This value may be for example a relative value with respect to the previously reported measurement (e.g. if the beam quality corresponding to contention free RACH resource has degraded by N-dB).
  • the value of TH_1 may be signalled in the RRC reconfiguration message with the handover command.
  • the method then proceeds with handover at step 406.
  • the beam quality may be below the first threshold value. If the user device determines that the beam quality is below the first threshold TH_1 at step 404, the method then proceeds to step 408, where the user device determines if any other beam(s) from the target cell are above a second threshold value TH_2.
  • the user device receives dedicated preamble configuration and the beam corresponding to the resource configuration is considered blocked, the user device initiates a contention based RACH procedure to determine one or more alternative/strongest detected beams during the next SS burst set (sweeping period).
  • the at least one alternative strongest detected beam has a second threshold TH_2 requirement.
  • TH_2 may be equal to or higher than TH_1. In other embodiments, TH_2 may be lower than TH_1.
  • the user device may initiate contention free RACH procedure (if configured) to indicate one or more alternative/strongest detected beams during the next SS burst set.
  • the user device may optionally trigger a beam report (to report e.g. N highest BSI measured). This may be for example in an msg3 or RRC connection request.
  • a beam report to report e.g. N highest BSI measured. This may be for example in an msg3 or RRC connection request.
  • the sweeping period i.e. SS-block set periodicity (SS block Period/ SS-burst set period)
  • is relatively long e.g.
  • the user device may listen only to a partial SS-burst set (one or more but not all of the SS-bursts of the SS-burst sets) in the case one or more beams with an adequate signal level is detected and proceed with the RACH attempt.
  • This level may also be preconfigured. The level may alternatively or additionally depend on the traffic delay requirements.
  • the method proceeds to 410 where a handover failure procedure is implemented.
  • step 408 If the user device determines that there is at least one other beam from the target small cell above the second threshold value TH_2 at step 408, the method then proceeds to step 412. At step 412, the user device cancels the random access to the beam of the target cell which had user device dedicated resources previously reserved.
  • step 414 the user device initiates random access to the beam determined to have a quality above the second threshold TH_2.
  • This determined beam not having previously allocated resources for the user device, requires a contention based RACH process in order for the user device to establish a connection.
  • the first and second threshold values may be interrelated - for example, TH_2 may be derived using TH_1 and an offset parameter. In other embodiments, TH_1 and TH_2 may not be related.
  • TH_1 may be a preconfigured value, for example a RSRP threshold value, or may be explicitly signalled by the target cell or source cell. In some embodiments, TH_1 may be signalled in the RRC reconfiguration message. TH_1 may also be a relative value, for example TH_1 may be determined by the beam quality corresponding to the contention free RACH resource degrading by a predetermined amount.
  • the user device may measure alternative beams with beam quality of a first offset offset_1 greater than the beam with dedicated RACH resources. This may be carried out in conjunction with the method of Figure 4 , for example being carried out after step 404 where the beam quality is greater than threshold TH_1 or may be carried out without the other steps of Figure 4 .
  • the user device may initiate a contention based RACH procedure on the resource corresponding to the highest quality beam(s) out of the set of beams measured to have a beam quality at least offset_1 greater than the beam quality of the beam with dedicated RACH resources.
  • the user device may randomly select a preamble out of the set of beams having beam quality of a first offset offset_1 greater than the beam with dedicated RACH resources, and perform RACH access on the beam corresponding to the selected preamble.
  • the value of offset_1 may be a preconfigured value or may be dependent on one or more network conditions.
  • the value of offset_1 may be signaled in the RRC reconfiguration message transmitted by the target cell, or by the source cell via RRC signaling or in any other suitable message.
  • the offset_1 may be evaluated against the strongest beam(s) or SS-block with dedicated RACH resources.
  • UE may measure signals that are transmitted on block level (using a set of beams) such as synchronization signals.
  • UE may measure beam specific signals.
  • the network may configure the user device with a first timer, Timer_1, during handover. For the duration of the timer in case of a target cell beam or beams with contention free RACH resources considered to degraded/blocked the user device may continue measuring the target cell beams. This may for example be in the context of step 408 of Figure 4 .
  • the timer may be configured together with a contention-free RACH resource for the source cell.
  • the timer elapses, and the user device has not received a RAR response from the target cell due to the target cell beam being degraded or blocked, the user device may then initiate RACH access to a dedicated resource on the source cell.
  • the timer may be configured such that the user device does not initiate a contention free RACH access to the target cell if it has been configured with a dedicated preamble resource. If the timer then expires, and the dedicated RACH resources are blocked, the user device may then further initiate contention free RACH.
  • the network may configure the user device with a second timer, Timer_2, during handover. This may be in addition or as an alternative to timer_1.
  • the contention free random access resource is associated to certain beam/SS-block.
  • the network Upon expiration of Timer_2, the network ensures that the configured contention free RACH resource is available in all beams or SS-blocks of the target cell. The network can ensure the availability by not configuring other UEs on these resources. It may configure other UEs when the timer 2 is running (for the duration) but when the timer 2 expires, the UE may assume contention free resources are available in every block.
  • the network may use the given random access resources for other user devices during the second timer period, while after the expiration of the second timer period, the user device is provided with contention free RACH resources in any of the beams or SS-blocks of the target cell.
  • the second timer may be lower than the RRC timer (timer_1) which determines the completion or failure of the handover procedure.
  • the user device may have reported multiple beams and received multiple dedicated preamble resources corresponding to different reported beams.
  • the user device may also receive resource configuration with contention based allocation for one or more of the reported beams.
  • the network may prioritize the assigned preamble resources. This prioritization may be done for a group comprising contention free preambles, and separately for a group comprising contention preambles.
  • the network may prioritize a specific beam within each group implicitly (for example, in the order in which they are signaled) or explicitly (for example, with a priority information being signaled). This informs the user device to access one particular beam if possible, and the order in which to attempt accessing subsequent beams if not possible.
  • the random access may be initiated for setting up multi/dual connectivity or additional uplink carriers in carrier aggregation, requiring separate timing advance and thus a random access procedure.
  • a user device with multiple connectivity capability may report multiple beams and may receive multiple dedicated preamble resources corresponding to different reported beams.
  • the user device may initiate a RACH procedure to two or more resources with distinctive directions if the user device has such a capability (for example, the user device may have a hybrid receiver with two receiver chains such that it may receive from multiple directions concurrently). Each receiver chain may be associated with a different beam direction.
  • the network may select which beam to use in transmitting the RAR message.
  • the user device may select preambles corresponding to the N strongest beams.
  • the network may be configured to have a beam specific RAR response window for dedicated preamble resources.
  • the user device may be capable of monitoring two or more directions for RAR messages using a time domain monitoring pattern.
  • the required data processing apparatus and functions may be provided by means of one or more data processors.
  • the apparatus may be provided in the communications device, in the control apparatus and/or in the access point.
  • the described functions at each end may be provided by separate processors or by an integrated processor.
  • the data processors may be of any type suitable to the local technical environment, and may include one or more of general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs), application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), gate level circuits and processors based on multi core processor architecture, as non-limiting examples.
  • the data processing may be distributed across several data processing modules.
  • a data processor may be provided by means of, for example, at least one chip. Appropriate memory capacity can also be provided in the relevant devices.
  • the memory or memories may be of any type suitable to the local technical environment and may be implemented using any suitable data storage technology, such as semiconductor based memory devices, magnetic memory devices and systems, optical memory devices and systems, fixed memory and removable memory.
  • the various embodiments may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects of the invention may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device, although the invention is not limited thereto. While various aspects of the invention may be illustrated and described as block diagrams, flow charts, or using some other pictorial representation, it is well understood that these blocks, apparatus, systems, techniques or methods described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
  • the software may be stored on such physical media as memory chips, or memory blocks implemented within the processor, magnetic media such as hard disk or floppy disks, and optical media such as for example DVD and the data variants thereof, CD.

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  1. Procédé comprenant :
    la réception (400), par un dispositif utilisateur, d'informations de transfert, lesdites informations de transfert comprenant des informations relatives à un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, lesdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux étant des faisceaux cibles d'une cellule cible ;
    la détermination (404), par ledit dispositif utilisateur, d'une qualité de faisceau ou de qualités de faisceau associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ;
    la détermination (408), par ledit dispositif utilisateur, d'une qualité de faisceau ou des qualités de faisceau associées à un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de la cellule cible,
    dans lequel
    - chaque qualité de faisceau comprend une puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante,
    - lesdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux sont différents desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, des ressources de liaison montante dédiées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux et des ressources de liaison montante partagées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux ;
    et
    la détermination (414), par ledit dispositif utilisateur, que ledit dispositif utilisateur doit initier une connexion à ladite cellule cible à l'aide d'une ressource de liaison montante partagée associée à un desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de ladite cellule cible dans un cas dans lequel ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante ou des puissances reçues de signal de référence desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ne sont pas supérieures à un premier seuil et ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante dudit desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux est supérieure à un second seuil.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel
    ledit second seuil est dépendant dudit premier seuil.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, dans lequel
    ledit second seuil est égal ou supérieur audit premier seuil.
  4. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, comprenant en outre :
    la communication par ledit dispositif utilisateur avec une cellule source dans un cas dans lequel ledit dispositif utilisateur doit initier une connexion à ladite cellule cible et un message de réponse respectif n'est pas reçu de ladite cellule cible dans une première période de temps.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans lequel
    lesdites ressources de liaison montante dédiées sont des ressources d'accès aléatoire sans conflit et lesdites ressources de liaison montante partagées sont des ressources d'accès aléatoire à conflit.
  6. Dispositif utilisateur comprenant des moyens configurés pour :
    recevoir (400) des informations de transfert, lesdites informations de transfert comprenant des informations relatives à un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, lesdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux étant des faisceaux cibles d'une cellule cible ;
    déterminer (404) une qualité de faisceau ou des qualités de faisceau associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ;
    déterminer (408) une qualité de faisceau ou des qualités de faisceau associées à un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de la cellule cible,
    dans lequel
    - chaque qualité de faisceau comprend une puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante,
    - lesdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux sont différents desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, des ressources de liaison montante dédiées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux et des ressources de liaison montante partagées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux ;
    et
    déterminer (414) que ledit dispositif utilisateur doit initier une connexion à ladite cellule cible à l'aide d'une ressource de liaison montante partagée associée à un desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de ladite cellule cible dans un cas dans lequel ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante ou des puissances reçues de signal de référence desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ne sont pas supérieures à un premier seuil et ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante dudit desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux est supérieure à un second seuil.
  7. Dispositif utilisateur selon la revendication 6, dans lequel ledit second seuil est dépendant dudit premier seuil.
  8. Dispositif utilisateur selon la revendication 7, dans lequel ledit second seuil est égal ou supérieur audit premier seuil.
  9. Dispositif utilisateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 6 à 8, comprenant des moyens configurés pour :
    communiquer avec une cellule source dans un cas dans lequel ledit dispositif utilisateur doit initier une connexion à ladite cellule cible et un message de réponse respectif n'est pas reçu de ladite cellule cible dans une première période de temps.
  10. Dispositif utilisateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 6 à 9, dans lequel
    lesdites ressources de liaison montante dédiées sont des ressources d'accès aléatoire sans conflit et lesdites ressources de liaison montante partagées sont des ressources d'accès aléatoire à conflit.
  11. Programme informatique comprenant un code exécutable par ordinateur qui, lorsqu'il est exécuté sur au moins un processeur d'un dispositif utilisateur, est configuré pour amener le dispositif utilisateur à effectuer au moins ce qui suit :
    la réception (400), par le dispositif utilisateur, d'informations de transfert, lesdites informations de transfert comprenant des informations relatives à un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, lesdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux étant des faisceaux cibles d'une cellule cible ;
    la détermination (404), par ledit dispositif utilisateur, d'une qualité de faisceau ou de qualités de faisceau associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ;
    la détermination (408), par ledit dispositif utilisateur, d'une qualité de faisceau ou des qualités de faisceau associées à un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de la cellule cible,
    dans lequel
    - chaque qualité de faisceau comprend une puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante,
    - lesdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux sont différents desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux, des ressources de liaison montante dédiées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux et des ressources de liaison montante partagées sont associées auxdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux ;
    et
    la détermination (414) par ledit dispositif utilisateur, que ledit dispositif utilisateur doit initier une connexion à ladite cellule cible à l'aide d'une ressource de liaison montante partagée associée à un desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux de ladite cellule cible dans un cas dans lequel ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante ou des puissances reçues de signal de référence desdits un ou plusieurs premiers faisceaux ne sont pas supérieures à un premier seuil et ladite puissance reçue de signal de référence correspondante dudit desdits un ou plusieurs seconds faisceaux est supérieure à un second seuil.
  12. Programme d'ordinateur selon la revendication 11, comprenant un code exécutable par ordinateur qui, lorsqu'il est exécuté sur au moins un processeur du dispositif utilisateur, est configuré pour amener le dispositif utilisateur à effectuer les étapes de l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 5.
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